Too Happy to Live: Difference between revisions

* It hasn't happened yet, but in ''[[Discworld/Thud|Thud]]'', it's revealed that the greatest fear of Sam Vimes, who over the course of the [[Discworld]] series has gone from a drunken wreck of a night watchman to a public VIP and happily-married father, is that this is going to happen someday, if not to him then to [[Adult Fear|his infant son]].

* [[Roger Ebert]] referenced this trope in his book ''The Little Book Of Hollywood Cliches.'' In his list of the "top movie characters likely to die," he says:

* {{spoiler|Finnick and Annie}} in Suzanne Collins' ''[[The Hunger Games|Mockingjay]]''.

* ''Sisterhood'' series by [[Fern Michaels]]: The very first book ''Weekend Warriors'' starts off with Myra Rutledge and her daughters Nikki Quinn and Barbara Rutledge, all three of them happy as they can be. Then Barbara gets struck and killed (along with her unborn child) by a drunk hit-and-run driver exploiting [[Diplomatic Impunity]]. Cue the [[Heroic BSOD]] and the formation of the Vigilantes!

* Invoked in an episode of ''[[Star Trek: The Original Series]]''. Kirk and his crew are held captive by androids, so they all generally [[Logic Bomb|act like illogical fools in order to get the androids to short circuit]]. Scotty grabs his heart and "dies". Kirk says he died from too much happiness.

** The episode is "I, Mudd":

[human characters all laugh] }}

* Everything [[Joss Whedon]] has ever written. If fans see someone happy, they know bad things are right around the corner.

* ''[[Heavy Rain]]''. At the start of the game, Ethan Mars has a blissful suburban life with his wife Grace and their two sons, Jason and Shaun. Then Jason is killed in a car accident and Ethan is put in a coma for six months. There's a [[Time Skip]] to two years later when Ethan is depressed, traumatized over the accident, separated from his wife, and has a strained relationship with Shaun who barely even speaks to him. Then [[It Gets Worse]].

* [[Max Payne (series)|Max Payne]] pretty much says it all in the prologue to the first game, right before [[It Gets Worse]].

* In ''[[Mass Effect 2]]'', Jack will invoke this about herself if she romanced a male Shepard and dies as the second squad team leader.

* ''[[Mother 3]]'' opens with Hinawa, Claus, and Lucas visiting their grandfather, happily playing with friendly dinosaurs, eating lunch, and preparing to depart for Tazmily in the afternoon. [[Tear Jerker|It's all downhill from there]].

* Ancel in the extra Angsty ''[[Valkyrie Profile Covenant of the Plume]]''. [[Lampshade|Lampshaded]] with his Truthade profile, which notes he was doomed the moment he told his love interest there was something he wanted to ask her when he got back.